Taranaki Farming Lifestyles, June 2016 by Integrity Community Media

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June 2016 Edition

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The contest kicks off this month with four regional stages. A butcher apprentice and a young butcher (who must have completed their apprenticeship and be 30 years or under) will be selected from each regional contest to go head-to-head against other regional winners at the Grand Final in August. Entrants competing in the regional stages must complete a practical cutting test in which they will have two hours to turn a whole beef sirloin, pork shoulder and a size-20 chicken into a display of products similar to what would be viewed in a butcher shop serve over. The competitors who make it through to the Grand Final will then have another chance to display their knife skills. Entrants will also be put through a written examination and interview to assess their theoretical knowledge and communication ability. Luka Young,

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Adventure awaits AT MAKOWHAI STATION

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Makowhai Station has a long history as a sheep and beef farm. More recently the property has made use of its expansive size and features, opening the gates for visitors to enjoy the great outdoors.

our generations of the Matthews family have run the 22,000 acre Waitotara Valley property since Joseph Haddow and his wife, Sophie, settled in the area in the early 1890s. Four other farms, Matemate, Takiri, Kapara and Angiwa, have been added to the station over the years. Some of these properties were originally farmed by WWI returned servicemen under the New Zealand government’s farm settlement scheme. The station is now operated by Henry Matthews, his sister Melody, and Melody’s husband Eon. Although Melody was raised on the station, she spent 12 years working in the dairy industry

before returning with Eon and their three children. Henry, Melody and Eon ventured into ecotourism five years ago, offering a wide range of activities and a couple of accommodation options. Melody runs the adventure tourism section of the business. “The decision to diversify was to add another source of income,” she said. “We conform to the New Zealand Safety Audit Standard for Adventure Activities 2013, through AdventureMark. “We can operate guided quad biking and trail biking tours.” Guided hunting of free range Fallow deer, goats and wild bulls are also available.

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brand. Both bush and manuka honey are processed on the property. Settlers Honey development manager, Bryn Hudson, said the placement of hives around Makowhai Station is worked out on the density of manuka in the area. “We generally use the formula of one hive per hectare of manuka, although

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GROWING THE BEST STEAK IN THE LAND BY DENISE GUNN

STEAK OF ORIGIN WINNERS, BRENDON AND HAYLEY ROBINSON, DESCRIBE THEMSELVES AS HOBBY FARMERS. YET THE FIRST-TIME ENTRANTS INTO THIS PRESTIGIOUS COMPETITION MANAGED TO TAKE OUT THIS YEAR’S GRAND CHAMPION TITLE WITH THEIR ANGUS CROSS SIRLOIN STEAK.

rendon and Hayley previously grazed dairy heifers but due to the downturn in the dairy industry, turned their attention to purchasing their own beef stock and taking them through to slaughter. The couple buy in stock all-year-round, sourcing animals from saleyards and the Trade Me auction site. They raise their stock on a 60-acre lease block near Normanby. Brendon said any time he sees stock that fit into their price range; he grabs them and doesn’t specifically look for any particular type.

“Preferably with four legs and a head,” he said. “If they’ve got a tail, well that’s a bonus.” It’s the price that tends to be the deciding factor. “After paying lease, making silage/ hay, regrassing and general farm maintenance costs, there isn’t much coin left in the kitty. “I think that’s why it’s called a hobby,” said Brendon. The bulk of the Robinsons’ purchases are 100kg beef weaners which are taken through to 220kg dead weight. The Robinsons’ winning steak was from a line of five Angus cross cattle

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Raised on his parent’s 165-cow dairy farm, Brendon now works shifts at the Kapuni gas plant but has kept close ties to his farming background. “Farming is in my blood,” he said. Hayley also has a connection to farming as her father, Kevin Bensemann, worked in the stock and station industry for 45 years prior to his retirement. Hayley currently works for a chartered accountant. The couple have two children, Emily, 15, and Sterling, 10. Not long after Brendon’s parents sold their dairy herd, his father suddenly passed away. “Two years later, Mum gave my brother and I the opportunity to lease her farms,” he said. “The block I lease was their 60-acre Normanby run-off, which is 16 kilometres away from the former dairy platform that my brother now leases.” The majority of the Robinsons’ lease block is flat with the back corner of the property falling away to a creek. Brendon

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Head of Farm Environment Trust steps down in October After a decade at the helm of the New Zealand Farm Environment (NZFE) Trust, general manager David Natzke is stepping down in October. NZFE Trust chairman Simon Saunders said Mr Natzke has made a huge contribution to the trust since his appointment in March 2006. “Under D a v i d ’s management, the trust has developed into a highly professional organisation that has grown the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) into one of our primary sector’s premier events.” Mr Natzke worked with trustees to manage the awards programme and expand the list of trust activities. Mr Saunders said Mr Natzke’s leadership has lifted the profile of the awards programme over the last decade, with three new regions joining up and a significant number of farmers David Natzke will step down as general enjoying the benefits offered manager of the NZ Farm Environment Trust in October by the BFEA. “His strong people and business helped make the awards programme the management skills have helped the success it is. trust build robust relationships with a Mr Natzke has had a lengthy wide range of sponsors, government involvement in the agribusiness organisation and industry partners. industry. He was chief executive of “David’s an excellent communicator Waikato Federated Farmers from 1989 and his ability to relate to many different to 1998 and Federated Farmers of New people, especially trust staff, BFEA Zealand’s general manager corporate volunteers and award entrants, has services until December 2005. “Agriculture has been a huge part of my been a real asset for the trust.” The success of the National Winner life,” said Mr Natzke. “I’ve really enjoyed my involvement programme and National Sustainability Showcase are other highlights of Mr with the trust over the last 10 years and I’ve always said the awards are a lot like Natzke’s tenure. Mr Natzke paid tribute to the Hotel California (the Eagles hit): You can trustees, NZFE Trust staff and the many check-out any time you like, but you can volunteers around the country who have never leave.”

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alternative medicines, as people are clamouring to try to stay healthy. Most of the health minerals produced today are in a synthetic form, and in a lot of cases these tablets are not recognised at the cellular level, passing straight through the body; confirmed by a portaloo operator, hosing out the loos after a venue and finding piles of mineral tablets still with the name of the mineral embossed on the tablet. No recognition by the cells! There are multi-mineral products out there in the market and Agrissentials is leading the field in multi-mineral, microbial rich fertilisers, designed to bring health and vitality back to soils. The microbial life are responsible for converting the natural minerals in our fertilisers to a plant available form, the ultimate form for plant uptake, energy and growth. Two years ago, I began taking my Rok dust minerals in a capsule form, knowing that the microbes in my gut would convert the minerals to a form that the cells would recognise and uptake the minerals. At that stage my waist size was 98cm, 24 months later I’m 88cm. I am not on a diet, I eat whatever I want and the most amazing thing is that I never feel hungry, I’m getting all the minerals I need and apart from a dickey hip, I feel great and mentally very strong. Call us today on 0800 THE KEY for a FREE INFO PACK, that’s 0800 843 539 to find out how we can partner with you to find a better way of farming. Alternatively you can contact your best on earth fertiliser representative Adrian Rowe on 021 873 304 to grab your special deal today.

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There is a wide variety of education providers in the Taranaki region, from early childcare through to tertiary institutions. This gives parents of school-age children the choice of co-educational or single sex, boarding or day, religious or secular schools. education institution. WITT is the only state tertiary institution in Taranaki and offers courses from certificate to degree level across a wide range of areas, including nursing, hospitality, maori, art, electrical, engineering, automotive, welding, carpentry, architecture, computing, hairdressing, beauty therapy, early childhood education and social sciences. WITT also specialises in English language tuition and foundation programmes for overseas students. The main campus in New Plymouth contains a cafeteria, art blocks, computer labs, engineering workshops, hospitality facilities including a training restaurant and cafe, and most recently, two student accommodation blocks offering modern and affordable living. WITT focusses its courses particularly on vocational outcomes and seeks to ensure that graduates are able to enter the workforce successfully or to advance their careers through further education or training. Qualifications are well regarded both regionally and nationally. The YMCA have a twenty-week youth development programme, followed by a 40-week post programme follow up and

support, for 14 to 17-year-old offenders both male and female. This programme is based around assisting young people to modify their behaviour through building trust, setting goals, accepting and participating in challenges, solving problems as individuals and groups, and

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What are we to make of the latest pay promise of $9.20/kg ms for organic milk a 60 per cent rise from the current organic payout and a staggering 235 per cent higher than the payout for conventional milk. It means there has been a massive worldwide shift in the mindset of dairy product consumers. The fact that they’re willing to pay a lot more for organic milk is a sure sign they’re no longer comfortable ingesting the chemicals found in typical milk products. They’re saying no to our penicillins, weed sprays and parasite pour-ons, and saying yes to clean organic milk. Here’s what else it means. Farmers will need to take greater responsibility for adding value to the products coming off their farms. With recent low commodity prices, we’ve been critical towards dairy companies for not producing and marketing value-added products from the milk sent to them. We’ve expected the factory to add the value and increase our return. Fair enough. I think that’s a critical part of Fonterra’s job. But what if some of the onus is on us to supply Fonterra with a better value-added product to

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begin with? Products like organic milk. Wouldn’t that put Fonterra in a stronger position to maximise our payout in a global market that clearly wants chemical-free products? A small group of farmers are discovering that it does. These farmers, either certified organic or close to going organic, were brave enough to significantly alter their management practices some time ago — $9.20/kg ms will be the reward for their foresight. Good for them. But where does that leave conventional farmers? We need a shift in our thinking. It’s impossible to run a farm without penicillin, weed sprays and pour-ons, and urea? I thought so when I first contemplated the idea. But I learned that I’d become brainwashed over the years by the companies that made the chemicals. These corporate giants with their big marketing budgets were constantly promoting a version of science that lead me to think I needed the chemicals they

were selling. At some point however, I focussed on proving that good production was not determined by a high usage of nitrogen. At that time the farm was growing 14 tonne of dry matter per hectare while using 150 units of nitrogen per hectare. After adjusting my management, the farm grew 19 tonne dm/ha from applying only 30 units of nitrogen per hectare. A 35 per cent increase in production with 80 per cent less artificial nitrogen. Over 10 years, I challenged and successfully changed a lot of conventional practices. Others went even further than I did. They’re the ones that will collect $9.20/kg ms next year. If you’re thinking of joining the trend to move away from a heavy dependence on chemicals, can I suggest you take this first step: sack your conventional thinking consultant. He can’t possibly think outside the chemical square because it’s the chemical system itself that gives him an income.

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Do we have Laminitis? I have just been running some trimming workshops on the West Coast and found myself regularly confronted with the continuing acceptance that physical force is the main contributor to lameness in New Zealand, together with a reluctance to accept that Laminitis is a very real problem here. So, do we have laminitis in New Zealand? There are people who believe we don’t because ‘it has not been proven’. What difference would it make? Why would we care? I believe that if you really want to solve a problem, you need to know what causes the problem. How else are you going to solve it? I believe that if we try to keep lameness under control by solving all the physical issues then we are only solving the symptoms. So, what is my point? When I talk about laminitis I am talking about an unhealthy live tissue in the hoof caused by internal imbalances. The symptoms of an unhealthy live tissue are haemorrhaging, holes and cracks, deformed hoofs and just about anything else we see wrong with the hoof. Most people mistakenly assume that all those symptoms are caused by standing on stones and other ‘sharp objects’, or ‘pushing cows too hard’ and therefore adding too much pressure on the hooves. The problem here is that this has never been proven to be the case. However, the fact that those symptoms are mainly a domestic cow issue and not so much a wild cow issue shows that there has to be more going on than just physical forces. I would argue that a cow in the wild is a lot harder on her hooves than a domestic cow on our farms. The fact that those symptoms are more cow-related than

hoof-related raises questions. Why are those symptoms symmetrical on both feet on most cows? That doesn’t make sense if it was caused by physical force. Also, why do we see haemorrhaging up on the dorsal wall? How could physical force be the cause of that? Why do we see the outer claw deformed much more often than the inner claw? Why do most cows go lame on the rear hooves if they only carry 40% of the weight? Why do we see mostly the outside claws displaying these symptoms if this is supposed to be the claw with the most protection? Why does it have a positive effect on the cow when we take some of that protection away by trimming? Think about it. How do you explain all those things from a physical force point of view? Research overseas has shown that diet and stress have a major impact on lameness. I know we are in New Zealand, but if it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it waddles like a duck and it flies like a duck it probably is a duck. We need to understand this properly because it will affect our management style — all of a sudden, controlled starvation becomes a problem rather than a tool, only one water trough may not be enough, and having cows out of the paddock for long

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periods of time becomes an issue, and the list goes on. I do not understand why people deny that laminitis is in dairy cows in New Zealand. I do not see any reason for that especially when the evidence so clearly points in that direction. Just for the record, I believe that just about

every cow in New Zealand has some degree of laminitis in their feet. In the majority of cases it is not severe enough to be a problem for the cow. However, I believe it is by far the biggest cause of lameness on our dairy farms. Let me know your thoughts, email me at fred@veehof.co.nz

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